Ugendra Singh

Introduction

Ugendra Singh is a registered nurse who worked at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney, and whose nursing registration was cancelled after the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that on 18 January 2022 he was convicted of stealing vials of the drug Propofol on two occasions from the hospital where he was employed, of common assault in a domestic violence context, and of failing to notify the national board of the charges within seven days — and that he was not a suitable person to hold registration because on 5 May 2020 he deceptively administered the stolen Propofol to Person A. The Health Care Complaints Commission prosecuted the complaint. The Tribunal found the complaint proven in its Stage 1 decision of 8 October 2025 and, in protective orders imposed on 24 December 2025, cancelled Singh’s registration with a three-year non-review period and prohibited him from providing any health services for the same period.

Background Information

Singh worked as a registered nurse at Liverpool Hospital, one of Sydney’s major public hospitals. Propofol is the anaesthetic agent famous as the drug that killed Michael Jackson — outside monitored clinical settings it suppresses consciousness and breathing, and its diversion by clinical staff is treated by health regulators and police alike as inherently dangerous, which is why hospital pharmacies log every vial and why theft of it is charged as a crime rather than handled as a workplace matter. The complaint against Singh combined three strands: the drug thefts, the domestic-violence-related assault conviction, and the deceptive administration of the stolen anaesthetic to a person outside any clinical setting. It was prosecuted by the Health Care Complaints Commission before the Tribunal.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Tribunal findings. The findings below are the formal adjudications of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal in a case prosecuted by the Health Care Complaints Commission. They were found proven in the Tribunal’s Stage 1 decision of 8 October 2025. The sources describe the convictions but do not report the sentences imposed in the criminal proceeding.

It was alleged that on 18 January 2022, Mr Singh was convicted of stealing vials of the drug Propofol on two occasions from Liverpool Hospital where he was employed as a nurse, of common assault in a domestic violence context, and of failing to notify the National Board within seven days of being charged with the offences. It was further alleged that he was not a suitable person to hold registration as a nurse because on 5 May 2020 he had deceptively administered the stolen Propofol to Person A. In its Stage 1 decision of 8 October 2025 the Tribunal found the complaint proven, found that Singh had been convicted of criminal offences, was guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct, and was not a suitable person to hold registration as a nurse. In protective orders imposed on 24 December 2025 the Tribunal cancelled his registration with a three-year non-review period and imposed a prohibition order preventing him from providing any health services for the same period.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The Health Care Complaints Commission published its media release announcing the cancellation on 15 January 2026, three weeks after the Stage 2 orders. The “not a suitable person” finding is one of the Tribunal’s broadest grounds — it does not require a further offence, only the conclusion that the practitioner’s record makes him unfit to hold the registration at all — and it is the natural home for conduct like deceptive administration of a stolen anaesthetic: a nurse using clinical access to obtain a consciousness-suppressing drug and then giving it to someone outside any care setting, invisibly. The prohibition order extends the bar beyond nursing to every health service for the three-year non-review period. The release names no appeal and no public statement from Singh.

Current Status

Singh’s nursing registration is cancelled, with the three-year non-review period running from the 24 December 2025 orders — the earliest he can seek review being December 2028 — and the prohibition order bars him from providing any health service for the same period. He cannot practise nursing in Australia while unregistered. Both the Stage 1 and Stage 2 decisions are published through NSW Caselaw. The sources report no public statement from Singh and no appeal against the findings or orders; the convictions of 18 January 2022 stand as the courts recorded them, and the sentences are not stated in the Commission’s release. Person A is not named in any published material.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A hospital nursing career ended where drug diversion and violence cross: vials stolen from his own employer, an anaesthetic given to a person who did not know he was receiving it, an assault conviction in a domestic violence context, and a non-notification of the charges that added a regulatory-dishonesty strand to the criminal ones. The three-year non-review period with an all-health-services prohibition is the tier the Tribunal reserves for records where the public needs years, not months, between the practitioner and any patient contact. His case joins the Commission’s early-2026 run of published NSW cancellations combining criminal convictions with unsuitability findings.

Sources

• NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, “Mr Ugendra Singh – Registered Nurse – Cancellation and Prohibition Order for Findings of Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct, Criminal Conviction and Not a Suitable Person,” 15 January 2026 — source